The Perfect Plan

The Perfect Plan

Chapter 4: Atobe's Fairy Tale Fantasy

Sorry for the delayed update….

Until recently, I have been lacking the inspiration to write……..

So here goes the continuation of this series, I hope that you would like it…..

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As the two brunettes continued their business regarding the dilemma caused by Ryoma's accident, Atobe sat quietly inside the hospital room watching over the youngest Echizen. He was quite disconcerted by the fact that he cannot seem to be able to take his eyes off his current charge. True, he felt guilty but that didn't seem to be a good enough reason for him to stay. He knew that he could always ask one of his maids to look out for the boy but somehow he was compelled to stay and watch. As the day progressed, the teenager suddenly felt his eyes droop a little and somehow, while staring at the younger one in front of him, his mind conjured the most absurd image ever.

Atobe's Imagination………………

There was once a young man with dark green hair and brilliant eyes. His was a face that could outshine any others. With skills so great that he was soon given the chance to compete with the pros. His name was Echizen Ryoma and it was believed to be the name destined to be written down in history. However, his irresponsible father decided that he should be put down a peg or two. He was sent to another place, somewhere near the east, and to his dismay, his new caretaker didn't think too highly of his arrogance.

There, he found out that there are others who possess such skills that he was enamoured shortly with the place. Unfortunately for him, the one in charge didn't approve of his lax attitude and therefore, decided to burden him with ten times the training regime of the others withing the area. He was a bespectacled young man, only two years older than Ryoma, and he goes by the name of Tezuka Kunimitsu. His subordinate, a sadistic brunette with closed eyes, Fuji Syuusuke, thought that it would be fun to play with the new guy and soon began his harassment of the poor teen.

A month had passed and the school, now known as Seishun Gakuen, ran by the notorious sensei, Ryuuzaki Sumire-san, receive an invitation from one of the most prestigious school in the region. It seems that the king of Hyotei Gakuen, decided to host a tournament in order to select his new lover. Atobe Keigo, a narcisstic (oi! ore-sama is not narcisstic) senior, sent out his retainer, the copy-genius, Munehiro Kabaji, to deliver them to most of the schools in the vicinity. The schools include, Seishun Gakuen, Fudomine, Yamabuki, St. Rudolph Academy, Rokkaku, and Rikkai Dai Fuzoku.

All players were expected to attend but it seems that most of the school participants already had their own partners and the entrants greatly diminished. Only a few decided to join. Tezuka, thinking that the new kid might actually have a chance, decided to take matters into his own hands and hid all of Echizen's raquets along with his tennis gear. After ensuring that everything was safe, he journeyed towards Hyotei Territory beleiving himself to be the victor seeing that Yukimura Seiichi and Sanada Genichirou of Rikkai already forfeited.

Ryoma who was determined to join the tournament, sulked at the discovery of the lost of his items. (He only knows about the tournament happening and not the reason behind it. Poor guy, oh well, it's not really my problem.) The rest of Seishun, who also forfeited, thought that he was sulking because he couldn't have the chance to fight for Atobe and decided to -ahem- help -ahem- him with his problem.

Kikumaru Eiji, a hyperactive acrobatic tennis player, popped in front of him and chirped in his usual cheery voice,

'Nya, does Ochibi-chan want to go to the tournament?'

'Of course.' Ryoma answered, How could I allow such an opportunity to play against strong players? He added to himself.

'Then allow me to help you, nya.' the red-head told him, 'First off, you need a gown, a pair of slippers, a coach with horses, and...'

'Oi, Eiji, that's not what you're supposed to say.' His partner, Oishi Syuichirou, called out to him.

'It's not?' was the reply, 'But I thought we're doing Cinderella, so he would need all those just like in the books.'

'Saa, but we're doing it, tennis-style, so he would need a different sort of things, Eiji.' the tensai told the acrobat.

'Sou ka. So what do we need?'

'Well, a raquet, a tennis jersey, some grip tape and other gears, I guess.' Fuji answered.

'But where can we get those, nya?' Eiji asked again but before Fuji could reply, two arguing sophomores entered the room while carrying a box of what-knows-what.

'Haven't I told you already, I don't know how it got in there.' the spiky-haired Momoshiro snapped at his rival.

'Fsshh, admit it already, you want me to get accused of theft, ah teme!' Kaidoh followed through.

'Baka Mamushi, why should I do that, those aren't even mine.' another snap.

Unfortunately, or rather fortunately, before Kaidoh could reply, a gasp was heard from the resident tennis prince.

'Oi, those are mine!' He focused his eyes towards the two, silently asking how they got a hold of it in the first place.

The two looked at the group and chuckled nervously, Momo answered, 'He found it in his room and began to accuse me of putting it in there so I dragged him here along with those in order to prove him wrong.'

'It's alright. Now, Echizen could go to the tournament.' Oishi said smiling indulgently towards the two.

Echizen nodded and ran past the approaching Data-man and towards the direction of the tournament.

As he reached the venue, the committee didn't want to accept him due to his tardiness but as the he had seem to capture Atobe's attention, he was given a chance much to Tezuka's chagrin.

Now that the tournament has begun, the only competitors that had remain were Tezuka and Echizen. Unfortunately, due to the pressure he had put on his arm, Tezuka suffered an injury and was forced to forfeit.

Finally, with Ryoma as the champion, Atobe boastfully announced, 'As you already know, the price for winning the tournament is having me as a lover. Now, Echizen, come with me.'

'Oi, matte, I only wanted to play. What's this about being your lover?' the freshman replied irately.

'Nani! didn't you know that Ore-sama put up this tournament because Ore-sama is looking for a new partner? Did you not join because you want to be with Ore-sama just like all the others?'

'Of course not! Why would I want to be with a monkey like you!'

'What did you say, brat!'

'I said, I do not want to be with a monkey like you.'

'Very well, Kabaji.'

'Usu.' and with that, the huge teen dragged Ryoma towards Atobe, who took Ryoma's chin by the hand and began to whisper softly,

'I'm going to make you change your mind about that.' with that said, his lips began to approach Ryoma's in an attempt to kiss him but...

Back to the real world...

'Could you please back off, Monkey-king. I don't want to have monkey virus just because you want to kiss me.' Ryoma snapped at Atobe, waking him up from his reverie.

'Who said that Ore-sama wants to kiss a brat like you? Ore-sama is just checking if you're still asleep.' He replied dismissively while deep inside, he was a mess. What was that? How did I end up doing that? Tezuka's gonna be mad at me... Damn brat...

'Right' Echizen replied sarcastically, not believing the given excuse. 'Now that I'm awake, could you a little it farther?'

'And why would I do that?' Atobe sneered.

'Like I said, I want to be infected by your monkey virus.' Ryoma drawled deliberately prolonging the word monkey as if to exercise his point.

'Hmph, Ore-sama does not have this so-called monkey virus, brat.' with that Atobe marched out of the room to cool down. He didn't want to further the brat's injury just in case he lose control of his temper.

'Mada mada dane.' Ryoma smirked triumphantly before falling back in deep slumber.

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Finally, an update.

What do you think?

Hope that you'd like it...

Ah well, bye again.

Kyuubi04.